Proud moment

It takes Singapore to provide a `proud moment' for the UK aviation sector.

This is in reference to the inaugural flight of the superJumbo A380 from Singapore to Heathrow today (March 18th). The airliner's wings are made at Broughton in North Wales and at Filton in Bristol. The Rolls Royce engines are built at Derby. Thus, that sector has reasons to be proud of the first flight, though SIA has been flying the aircraft from Singapore to Sydney since October last year.

There is also a possibility, probably greater than half, that the rubber from which the landing gear is made of, comes from one of our own `ladang getah', or one of the thousands of `kebun kecil getah' scattered all over the country...